Murdoch exec Brooks re-arrested in hacking probe: report

LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported. British police confirmed they had held five men and one woman in dawn raids across the country on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, with the woman described as 43-years-old and living in Oxford. Brooks, who has become a central figure in the phone hacking scandal, is 43-years-old and lives in Oxfordshire. ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported.

LONDON — A journalist on trial in Britain’s phone hacking scandal testified Thursday that Princess Diana provided him with information on the royals, including a phone directory, as part of her feud with her estranged husband, Prince Charles.
Former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman said Diana handed over the data after her separation from Charles, when she was going through a “very, very difficult time” and was looking for media support. Diana and Charles separated in 1992 and divorced four years later. She died in a Paris car crash in 1997.

LONDON — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was convicted of phone hacking Tuesday, but fellow editor Rebekah Brooks was acquitted after a monthslong trial centring on illegal activity at the heart of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire.
A jury at London’s Old Bailey unanimously found Coulson, the former spin doctor of British Prime Minister David Cameron, guilty of conspiring to intercept communications. Brooks was acquitted of that charge and of counts of bribing officials and obstructing police.

Friday marked the seventh anniversary of Tony Blair’s resignation as British prime minister after achieving unprecedented electoral success for his Labour Party, but those seven years have not been kind to his image.
As the country’s youngest prime minister in nearly two centuries, Mr. Blair’s political life was energized by the vigour of youth but, inevitably, it also assured him a long post-political career.
And it is here his reputation has imploded.

LONDON — Jurors at Britain’s phone hacking trial have been read intercepted messages left by Prince William on Kate Middleton’s phone, in which he calls her “babykins” and jokes about almost being shot during a military training exercise.
The recording dates back to the days before they were married and reveals the extent of media intrusion into the lives of William, second-in-line for the throne, and Middleton, who at the time was a private citizen dating a senior royal.

Britain's News of the World hit the newsstands for the last time on Sunday, ending its 168-year history of scoops and scandal with the headline "Thank You and Goodbye."In a full-page editorial, Britain's top-selling weekly newspaper apologised to readers for the long-running scandal over phone hacking that caused its closure, saying: "Quite simply, we lost our way."But the row is far from over, and as owner Rupert Murdoch headed to London to take personal charge of the crisis, it was reported that police would soon be questioning his top British executive, Rebekah Brooks.